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Simon:
Of all the open source projects I've been involved in, and that's a lot, I can't say I've ever come across someone keeping core improvements to themselves. It's of course in everyone's interest to advance the product. So I think you're imagining something that just doesn't happen.

There are plenty of cameras with this openness - including slow motion - the iPhone 6 & 7 the most notable with thousands of open, closed, free and paid apps modifying the camera. The Chronos simply gives the opportunity to write software on a camera with higher frame rates and/or resolutions. I definitely wouldn't have purchased it without access to the app development environment.

I'm talking substantial specialist apps in the camera when I talk about retaining source code; complicated image processing algorithms say for analyzing cell division or sports analysis, not simple apps like a color histogram which have no IP behind them, take a few hours to knock up and have general appeal.

Electra:
I'd love to be proven wrong, I've seen people both fork off and refuse to give back changes as well as very open and giving people. Planning for the worst, expecting the best.

I guess it depends on how the camera's internals are done. I mostly fail to see, unless I'm radically wrong about how the LGPL works(And the people who I talk to about this are all out of the country or out of contact for the next few weeks!), how having the camera's main software and libs under LGPL stops you from writing a big program that connects to everything through those APIs, from using the MIT license or even keeping your code to yourself completely.
After all, I'm running some very closed software(VMWare and Chrome with it's DRM libs to name two) on a very open OS(Debian) with no licence issues.

The only two 'serious' open camera projects I know of is https://www.apertus.org/ and https://www.elphel.com/
I'm going to assume that Chronos will allow a much deeper and comprehensive level of access than the limited interface set that the iphone provides. :)

But I could be quite, quite wrong!
At this point, I believe anything further from me would come across as suborn and argumentative, plus I don't trust myself to know all the facts either, so for now I'm happy to wait and see what the results are and until then, I can't wait to play with my new toy! :)

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